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by zapita 6y ago
Both things can be true. Some dangerous drugs are excessively criminalized and that causes enormous problems. Others are legal but heavily regulated, like alcohol and tobacco. Some are legal and insufficiently regulated, which causes enormo
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by zapita 6y ago
> Facebook doesn't profit from divisiveness, they profit from engagement. The fact that divisive posts encourage more engagement tells me more about people in general, rather than Facebook's business model. "Crack dealer
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by zapita 6y ago
It's not at all guaranteed that joining a religious community will diversify your social circle. It may very well have the opposite effect depending on the particular community you join.
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by zapita 6y ago
What about continuing to rely on private contractors, but with a mandate to open-source everything they develop with public funds? Perhaps that would address the issues you describe?
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He probably will since Assange has been a reliable ally to Trump in the 2016 election. But I don’t think it helps or hurts matters electorally since most voters have never heard of Assange.
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by zapita 6y ago
You are correct. It's Roger Stone who was a Nixon advisor. Stone is the federal felon which AG Barr recently freed from prison by overriding his sentencing guideline, for purely political reasons. I had my criminals mixed up.
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by zapita 6y ago
Sure any lawyer can have ulterior motives. It just so happens that this particular AG has a well established track record of politicizing his work in public office, dating back to the Nixon and Reagan years. It doesn’t seem like a stretch t
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by zapita 6y ago
Other comments have pointed out that he is pushing the timeline against the advice of career lawyers. Everything this Attorney General does should be scrutinized for underlying partisan motivation. My guess is that he has ulterior political
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by zapita 6y ago
I'm not dismissing how good it is, just how popular it is. Definitely not popular enough to threaten Docker's adoption, not even close. Docker does have problems, but Podman is not one of them.
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> With RedHat going after Docker itself with their daemonless version of Docker, podman Nobody cares about Podman except Red Hat and their most loyal fans. I'd be surprised if podman has managed to steal more than 1% of Docker&#x2
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by zapita 6y ago
> So I guess they just failed to monetize the technology. Yes, it's really that simple. All those "container wars" and "orchestration wars" are a distraction from the core issue, which is that all those contain
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by zapita 6y ago
Yes Docker seems to be struggling as a company. But I doubt Podman has anything to do with it. The adoption of Docker open-source tools is massive and 99% of its users have never heard of podman or any other clones, and likely never will. T
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by zapita 6y ago
I don't use VS Code, and I'm not going to switch IDEs for code sharing. I am more likely to try GitDuck since my colleagues who use VS Code can also use it.
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Out of curiosity, if you’re not a SF resident, what are you basing your disagreement on? Do you live in a nearby city that is affected by SF policies?
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> culture was when i lived in versailles As someone who actually lived in Versailles, this made me laugh outloud. It’s a boring upper-class suburb which happens to have a big castle in it. Culturally it’s at the same level as the Hampt
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by zapita 6y ago
If you are talking about the board of supervisors, I agree. They are to blame for many of the city’s problems, mostly because their most politically active constituents and donors are angry homeowners who block everything. The current mayor
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by zapita 6y ago
How is this relevant to the topic being discussed?
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> That sounds like bullshit honestly. It sounds that way to you because it goes against your beliefs. It doesn’t mean it’s wrong... > I haven't seen any evidence that white people specifically have "invented" racism
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I'm seeing many comments calling this initiative "racist", or at least going against the principles of all people being equal, etc. This is incorrect! Racism is a hierarchical caste system based on a pseudo-scientific classif
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by zapita 6y ago
Your definition of racism is incorrect. Racism is a hierarchical caste system based on a pseudo-scientific classification of people into races. The dominant form of racism, invented in Europe and exported all over the world via colonization
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by zapita 6y ago
Tech has also consolidated significantly. - Facebook has acquired 86 companies, most of them small startups. They famously own Instagram, Whatsapp and Oculus, as well as Giphy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mer
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I think that's exactly right.
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Docker guarantees run reproducibility . It does not guarantee build reproducibility although it does make it easier to achieve.
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The problem you describe, of the double meaning of the term “racism”, is very real, but only among white people. When communicating with a Black CEO, you can safely assume that they understand the true meaning of the term, from experiencing
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by zapita 6y ago
Yes, it appears that I have.
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We also have Roberts to thank for Citizens United, which flooded the political landscape with dark money and made the current GOP strategy viable.
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Yes, that’s always a possibility. I try to check myself for this kind of behavior, and I don’t think that your description is accurate, but of course you never know for certain.
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He has already started. - Informed populace. Really? It seems to me that propaganda and disinformation are rampant. The rise of radio broadcasts parallels the rise of National Socialism in Germany. Hitler understood the power of this new fo
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I don't think you appreciate the magnitude of what is happening in the US at the moment. The federal government is being stripped for parts, as we speak. Entire agencies have been gutted. Industrial conglomerates can literally regulate
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There are as many sources as there are experts on the topic... If you had bothered to even google "autocracy expert trump" you would have dozens of sources already. 1. Sarah Kendzior. PhD on the topic of autocracy (specifically Uz

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